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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to selling solar cells, it pays to be cheap -- and thin.
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the summer, an air conditioner can be a necessity. However, cooling down a house can be expensive, but there are ways to reduce the cost.
- Added: Jul 25, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
This on-the-road magazine special looks at our sources of energy - present and future - beginning with our Virginia producer who traces her househo...
Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 09, 2008
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 2
Evan McMullen's car holds the Guinness World Record for gas mileage--376 miles per gallon. Krak
Bought by KVMR and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Jul 09, 2008
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 2
Life on the Duwamish, Segment 5
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 08:53
Life on the Duwamish, Segment 4
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 08:49
Take a tour of the greenest building in Manhattan.
- Added: Jul 02, 2008
- Length: 19:56
As oil prices rise and supplies decline, interest in wind energy is soaring. But finding sites for wind farms hasn't been a breeze.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:30
There are plans underway to eliminate waste in our nation's park -- one cup at a time.
- Added: Jul 01, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Dutch researcher Jos Meeuwen would like to put in a plug for energy self-sufficiency. In fact, he'd like to put in a plug for everyone in his count...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
What to do you get after you empty a barrel of fermented beer or whiskey? Besides a hangover, that is...
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
We may be able to get drinking water from treated sewage -- and water shortages could eventually force us to rely on this option.
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
- Added: Jun 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Is the much-maligned electric car poised for a comeback?
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KGOU
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 18, 2008
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
Researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University recently received a Presidential citation for developing an environmentally fri...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:30
Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
The ethanol experts are at it again. Scientists in Brazil have found a way to boost biofuel production that's naturally more attractive.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
An unusual banquet is underway in North Carolina -- and the worms are going hog wild.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Remember that old-fashioned mode of transportation -- the trolley, or streetcar -- it's making a comeback worldwide.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Conserving energy and reducing pollution is as easy as changing a light bulb.
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Most of us have heard that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and a major contributor to global warming...is there a way to capture the carbon bef...
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 01:26
